Confiscation of guns a step toward tyranny

Once again, the New Jersey Legislature is poised to further restrict the ability of law-abiding New Jersey citizens to defend themselves, their loved ones, and their property.

The Senate's Law and Public Safety Committee may consider as early as May 5, Senate bill S993, which would further limit firearm magazine capacity and turn firearms (including air rifles) which have been legal since their manufacture into "assault" weapons and their owners into felons overnight. (The Assembly version of this bill, A2006, passed the Assembly in March.)

Since we know, thanks to the open mic fiasco at the end of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee's hearing on gun control bills last year, the objective of the gun grabbers in the legislature is to "confiscate, confiscate, confiscate," it serves no useful purpose pointing out the fact that current and proposed New Jersey firearms statutes have not done and will not do anything to reduce gun violence in our state. None of New Jersey's strict gun control laws has ever hindered criminals in obtaining firearms because criminals ignore the law.

Clearly, this effort to disarm citizens has never been about public safety. Instead, its objective has been and continues to be rendering citizens defenseless against elitist politicians who seek only power over the people. And we have history to inform us that government confiscation of firearms from law-abiding citizens never works out well for any citizen.

Whether or not you own or ever intend to own a firearm, your God-given right to choose to defend yourself with a gun, guaranteed by the Second Amendment, is under assault. Visit, call, or write, and tell your senator to preserve your right to defend yourself, your loved ones, and your property. Tell them to vote against Senate bill S993 should it come to the floor of the Senate.

Pete Sesnick

PINE BROOK

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Confiscation of guns a step toward tyranny

Once again, the New Jersey Legislature is poised to further restrict the ability of law-abiding New Jersey citizens to defend themselves, their loved ones, and their property.

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